30 Day Challenge - Day 17

A Picture of Something that has had a Huge Impact on Your Life

The challenge said that this was something that had a huge impact "recently", but I didn't want to follow that instruction....

No, I am not quite the Aggie football fanatic that the Queen is, however, I did graduate from Texas A&M and Aggie football had a big impact on that aspect of my life.

When I was a Senior in Highschool, I applied to Texas A&M and The University of Texas at Austin. Having not actually grown up in Texas and not having any long-seated love (or knowledge) of either schools, I didn't really know where I wanted to go. By the fall of my Senior year, I had already been accepted at both schools. Across the board everything was pretty much the same. I had housing both places. Since they were both state schools the cost was about the same (although to be completely honest, I couldn't tell you if that was a fact as I'm sure that is something my parents were looking at more so than me). In general, the two options were interchangeable.

That Thanksgiving, 1985, as I'm walking through the living room my dad said something to the effect "Honey, both your schools are playing." I replied "Whover wins, that's where I'm going..."

Guess who won....

So, yeah, I'd say that A&M football had a pretty big impact on my life. It helped make one of the biggest decisions of my life. Admittedly, I sometimes wonder how different my life would have been if the Longhorns had a better team that year.... but, you know.... I look much better in Maroon than I do in Burnt Orange.